Despite playing an innings of 240+, sometimes he/she lagged behind his/her partner and sometimes behind his/her opponent, two batsmen with better average than Sachin are included

New Delhi. There have been some occasions in Test cricket when a batsman has scored more than 240 runs in a match but still could not become the top scorer of the innings. Some other batsman scored more runs than him/her in the innings. The most prominent name in this list is of Sir Don Bradman, who is considered to be the greatest batsman of the world, who scored 244 runs in the 1934 Test against England at the Oval ground but still could not become the top scorer of the match. his/her Australian teammate Bill Ponsford made 266 runs in this Test and overshadowed the shine of this innings of the ‘Don’ of cricket.

Although the record of scoring the most runs without being the top scorer of a Test innings is in the name of Sri Lanka’s dashing wicketkeeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara who played an innings of 287 runs against South Africa in 2006, but fellow batsman Mahela Jayawardene surpassed ‘Sanga’ in terms of top score. In the match, Jayawardene scored the fourth top score (374 runs) in Test cricket. Let us tell you, the Test average of both Bradman and Sangakkara is better than legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Ponting, Lara, Kallis and Smith.

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Sangakkara was left behind Jayawardene even after scoring 287 runs
Kumar Sangakkara was considered one of the best batsmen of Sri Lanka. ‘Sanga’ scored 12400 runs (highest 319 runs) in 134 tests at an average of 57.40. The biggest partnership of Test cricket till date – 624 runs, is recorded in the name of Sri Lanka’s Jayawardene and Sangakkara pair. Both of them made this partnership for the third wicket in the Colombo Test against South Africa in July 2006 after Sri Lanka lost its first two wickets cheaply. In Sri Lanka’s first innings, captain Jayawardene scored 374 runs with the help of 43 fours in 572 balls and Sangakkara scored 287 runs with the help of 35 fours in 457 balls. Despite scoring more than 280 runs in the match, Sangakkara was left behind Jayawardene’s score of 374 by a considerable margin. Thanks to the marathon partnership between these two batsmen and Muralitharan’s bowling (10 wickets in the match), Sri Lanka won this Test by an innings margin.

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Hunte was defeated by Sobers in the historic Kingston Test
Until 1994, the highest individual score in Test cricket was in the name of West Indies’ Garry Sobers. he/she played a marathon innings of 365 runs (38 fours) against Pakistan in February 1958. West Indies’ Brian Lara in 1994 and 2004, Australia’s Matthew Hayden in 2003 and Sri Lanka’s Jayawardene in 2006 surpassed Sobers’ score. In the Kingston Test against Pakistan, West Indies team opener Conrad Hunte’s innings of 260 runs (28 fours, one six) paled in comparison to Sobers’ innings. Sobers’ innings stole the limelight by making the highest individual score of that time. West Indies won the match by an innings margin.

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Atapattu and Sangakkara had scored double centuries but…

Sri Lanka’s first Test against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in May 2004 Marvan Atapattu (Marvan Atapattu) made the highest score of his/her career but Kumar Sangakkara’s innings of 270 runs in this match was even ‘bigger’ than that. Atapattu, who came in as an opener, scored 249 runs in 324 balls with the help of 36 fours and a six, while Sangakkara, who came in to bat at the first order, scored 270 runs in 365 balls with the help of 36 fours and two sixes and registered the top score of this test match. Sri Lanka won this test match by an innings margin.

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Ponsford proved to be better than Don in the Oval Test

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Don Bradman may be considered the best batsman in the world, but Bill Ponsford’s innings against England in the 1934 Oval Test somewhat dimmed his/her shine. In the first innings of this Test in August 1934, Bradman scored 244 runs with the help of 32 fours and a six in 271 balls, while Ponsford scored 266 runs with the help of 27 fours. Ponsford’s innings in this Test was even ‘bigger’ than Bradman’s. With the help of the double centuries of these two legends, the Australian team won the Test by a huge margin of 562 runs.

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